The Catholic and Dominican Institute

An Awakening to Faith: We are Made of Stardust

October 14, 2013 7:00 PM

Villa Library

On October 14, The Catholic and Dominican Institute will
present a lecture by Fr. George Coyne, SJ, entitled "An Awakening
to Faith: We are Made of Stardust."

Fr. George Coyne, SJ holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics
from Fordham University and a doctorate in astronomy from
Georgetown University. In 1976 became a senior research fellow at
the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) of the University of
Arizona (UA) and a lecturer in the UA Department of Astronomy. He
served as Director of the UA's Catalina Observatory and Associate
Director of the LPL. Coyne became Director of the Vatican
Observatory (VO) in 1978, and also Associate Director of the UA
Steward Observatory. During 1979-80 he served as Acting Director
and Head of the UA Steward Observatory and the Astronomy
Department. He is the founding president of the Vatican Observatory
Foundation. In 2012 he retired from the Vatican Observatory and
assumed the McDevitt Distinguished Chair in Religious Philosophy at
Le Moyne College of the Jesuits in Syracuse, New York.